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Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial at a glance

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Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$351k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$599kArts & Culture$378kHousing & Shelter$363kPublic Safety & Disaster$287kReligion$194kYouth Development$187kCommunity Improvement$169kRecreation & Sports$163kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $234k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ALONG THE ALLEGHENY$60,000
VENANGO COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND$50,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN$48,702
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$35,000
TITUSVILLE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$30,000
ABC LIFE CENTER INC$30,000
VENANGO AREA RIDING FOR THE$30,000
ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$25,000
COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK OF ERIE COUNTY$25,000
FAMILY SERVICES OF NW PA$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Glade Run Foundation: $17k → 9%Easter Seals Western and Central Pennsyl: $40k → 11%FAMILY SERVICES OF NW PA: $10k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $35k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 19 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
34

Total granted

$1.8M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

37%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ALONG THE ALLEGHENY
    3× · 2018–2025 · $133k · revenue +47% · 58% of their budget
  • FC
    FRANKLIN CIVIC OPERETTA ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2018–2021 · $100k · revenue +70%
  • PP
    PRECIOUS PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE
    2× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • RC
    REGIONAL COUNSELING CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +1%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $72k
  • PP
    PENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $62k · revenue +46%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Penn Volunteer Fire Department

All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.

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2
Bloomsburg Volunteer Ambulance Association

Community ambulance service serving residents in the greater bloomsburg, pennsylvania area

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Reliance Fire Co No 1 of Berwick Pennsylvania

Volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster
4
North Penn Volunteer Fire Company

To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.

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5
Penryn Fire Company 1 Inc

Volunteer fire company

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Clearfield Volunteer Fire Department

The protection, preservation of life and property during emergencies as may occur in the Borough of Clearfield and surrounding communities.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Hartsville Volunteer Fire Co 1

Promote fire safety and provide fire protection.

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8
Shenango Area Fire District

Responds nbsp;to nbsp;fire nbsp;calls nbsp;vehicle nbsp;accidents nbsp;water nbsp;rescue nbsp;and nbsp;other nbsp;human nbsp;disasters nbsp;trains nbsp;and nbsp;educates nbsp;both nbsp;volunteer nbsp;firemen nbsp;and nbsp;the nbsp;general…

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Bradford Woods Volunteer Fire Company

The mission of this fire company is to prevent and extinguish fires in the borough of bradford woods, pa and assist neighboring fire companies as needed.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Ebensburg Area Ambulance Association

The association operates an emergency ambulance service provided for the residents of ebensburg, pa and surrounding area without regards to ability to pay.

Health
11
Central Volunteer Fire Department

Operation of a volunteer fire company for the local communities in pike county, pa.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Valley Ambulance Authority

To provide emergency medical services to the participating communities, which includes ambulance and wheelchair van services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie Homes for Children & Adults Inc; the most unlike its peers is Vintage Wings Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
15/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KEYSTONE SMILES COMMUNITY LEARNI: $287,613 · OtherKEYSTONE SMILES COMMUNITY LEARNIHISTORIC FRANKLIN PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $110,000 · OtherHISTORIC FRANKLIN PRESERVATION ASSOCIATIONCATHOLIC RURAL MINISTRY: $95,000 · OtherAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $93,000 · OtherYMCA OF FRANKLIN-GROVE CITY: $91,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF VENANGO: $76,017 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $72,171 · OtherTHE SIGHT CENTER OF NORTHWEST: $70,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC: $94,296 · Other+34 more: $1,072,642 · Other+34 moreVenango County Association for the Blind: $251,512 · HealthVenango County A…REGIONAL COUNSELING CENTER INC: $90,000 · HealthREGIONAL COUNSEL…ABC LIFE CENTER INC: $30,000 · HealthABC LIFE CENTER …NORTHWEST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $29,350 · HealthNORTHWEST HOSPIT…COMMUNITY BLOOD BANK OF ERIE COUNTY: $25,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY BLOOD …ERIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS INC: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $14,000 · HealthFRANKLIN CIVIC OPERETTA ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureOIL CITY CIVIC CENTER INC: $43,079 · Arts & CultureVintage Wings Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ALONG THE ALLEGHENY: $133,183 · Youth DevelopmentEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $40,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 · Human ServicesGLADE RUN FOUNDATION: $17,240 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES OF NW PA: $10,000 · Human ServicesALLEGHENY VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $59,000 · AnimalsPRECIOUS PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE: $42,112 · AnimalsBRIDGE BUILDERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FKA VENANGO AREA COMM FOUNDATION: $97,023 · Philanthropy
Other$2,062,239Health$459,862Arts & Culture$153,079Youth Development$133,183Human Services$102,240Animals$101,112Philanthropy$97,023

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVenango County Association for the Blind: $251,512 over 6y, 16% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ALONG THE ALLEGHENY: $133,183 over 3y, 58% of budgetFRANKLIN CIVIC OPERETTA ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetBRIDGE BUILDERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FKA VENANGO AREA COMM FOUNDATION: $97,023 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW PA INC: $94,296 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PARKS AND FORESTS FOUNDATION INC: $62,400 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetRENO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $62,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetALLEGHENY VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $59,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetEMMAUS HAVEN OF VENANGO INC: $46,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetOIL CITY CIVIC CENTER INC: $43,079 over 1y, 20% of budgetPRECIOUS PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE: $42,112 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetEASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VENANGO COUNTY AND TITUSVILLE REGION: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMIE'S KIDS: $35,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetHYDETOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $30,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetNORTHWEST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $29,350 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOIL REGION LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $25,653 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY BLOOD BANK OF ERIE COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCRANBERRY HOME AND SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetBELLES LETTRES CLUB: $23,282 over 1y, 18% of budgetCHRISTIAN LIFE ACADEMY INC: $22,163 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetERIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLADE RUN FOUNDATION: $17,240 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF NW PA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 532 FRENCH CREEK COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSANDYCREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $4,711 over 1y, 3.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Edward V & Jessie L P…Bridge Builders Commu…Samuel-Edith Justus C…Arthur W Phillips Tru…Elizabeth S Black Cha…Northwest Charitable …McElhattan FoundationEileen J Luce Charita…Erie Community Founda…Laura M Smedley TuwEdith C Justus TuwUnited Way of Erie Co…
Edward V & Jessie L Peters Charitable TrustPA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edward V & Jessie L Peters Charitable Trust · Bridge Builders Community Foundations Fka Venango Area Comm Foundation · Samuel-Edith Justus Char Trust · Arthur W Phillips Trust Uw · Elizabeth S Black Charitable Trust · Northwest Charitable Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · Eileen J Luce Charitable Trust · Erie Community Foundation · Laura M Smedley Tuw · Edith C Justus Tuw · United Way of Erie County

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fair Frederick&Ellen Memorial. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home